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by endgame 6y ago
I have an idea for Mozilla: cut the random activism projects, keep Firefox competitive and resume the experimental stuff once you've got the browser sorted. A browser that's not pushed by an advertising company is really important
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by endgame 6y ago
The lack of definition in the arms, the sharp lighting and the absence of any sense of motion combine to make it look posed in garrysmod or something.
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by endgame 6y ago
I had a brief occasion to use NNTP twelve or thirteen years ago, where my university was still using NNTP for course discussion boards. It was awesome. You had a good choice of clients to read and post (instead of a half-baked webapp), and
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by endgame 6y ago
Not the first time we were lied to as part of this disaster: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pa... Turns out the "don't close borders" advice was a cached th
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by endgame 6y ago
ICANN should never have done gTLDs at all.
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by endgame 6y ago
I was using G Suite on a personal domain, and woke up one morning to discover that google refused to let me IMAP into my account any more. The error message pointed me at a browser verification page which I did multiple times, to no avail,
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by endgame 6y ago
> CMake was a big improvement over make and autoconf years ago I would not even grant this, and I spent a lot of time wrangling both CMake and autotools many years ago.
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by endgame 6y ago
> The company they work for might get fined, but all the engineers see is the performance review. This system encourages engineers to think of compliance and morality as someone else's problem because: it is. Didn't work so wel
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by endgame 6y ago
https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html You mean this Weyland "support"?
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by endgame 6y ago
For all the hate pulse gets, my microphone works more reliably under GNU/Linux than under Windows these days. 2020 is weird, man. I remain deeply suspicious of second-system-effect "let's replace everything about $THING"
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by endgame 6y ago
Here's the link, for those who don't remember: https://twitter.com/Uncle_Muscle/status/1246243641439457280 (Screenshotted reply to a CDC tweet.) We call this "lying to manage supply", which is
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by endgame 6y ago
I remember seeing it in the early 2000's, so yeah.
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by endgame 6y ago
Consoles are consumption devices. PCs are creation devices.
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by endgame 6y ago
wissio's comment here (sibling) is dead. I don't know why.
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by endgame 6y ago
I run straight into the zoo of packaging systems every time I try to do anything with python.
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by endgame 6y ago
Check your $EDITOR environment variable.
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by endgame 6y ago
Surprised to not see the Iron Realms MUDs mentioned in the article. I've seen the CEO around here in the past, but can't remember his username or if he still posts.
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by endgame 6y ago
I've been using Dhall ( https://dhall-lang.org ) and it does this. But it goes a step further: because `dhall format` defines the canonical form of any dhall code, it does the unicode substitution for you. So you get conven
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by endgame 6y ago
Yeah there have been a couple of attempts, mostly leaning on the "recursive blueprints" mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF--1XdcOeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQSDEmY1Wc
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by endgame 6y ago
I think of the five dimensions as: 1. Horizontal within a board 2. Vertical within a board 3. Backwards and forwards along a timeline 4. Up and down across timelines 5. The timeline of how the game actually evolves, building out the tree. T
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by endgame 6y ago
I used this a few months back to get some data off old floppies, along with some suggested commands from https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rescuing_Fl... Very neat piece of software.
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by endgame 6y ago
That seems like a _very bad_ habit to get humans into.
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5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel(5dchesswithmultiversetimetravel.com)
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by endgame 6y ago
> I wonder if we will look back and see that we have witnessed the creation of the nuclear weapons of information warfare. I wouldn't be surprised. What's the point of reading anything on the internet, or arguing with someone o
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by endgame 6y ago
The dhall language does https imports, but with two important differences: 1. The language is _pure_ and _total_, so it will _eventually_ terminate and cannot perform side-effects 2. You can specify the SHA256 of the referenced resources in
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by endgame 6y ago
Things like "Operation Choke Point", I assume. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... Beyond that, if a major payment provider doesn't like you, you're basically s
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by endgame 6y ago
I know this feeling very well. But after seeing so many things I liked slide into substandard mockeries of their peaks, I'm more than happy to watch people draw a line around their work and say "this is done".
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by endgame 6y ago
Just let Calvin & Hobbes stand as its own beautiful finished thing. One of the reasons Calvin & Hobbes is so timeless and beloved is that it's not _that_ anchored in any particular time period. While it's dated somewhat by
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by endgame 6y ago
Some things are too important to be mere paperwork, and need a ritual to mark them. Graduating university is where this range begins, and taking on the citizenship of another nation is definitely way above that.
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by endgame 6y ago
You might enjoy https://www.qb64.org/ , particularly if you have a bright youngster in you live with whom you'd like to share the joy of BASIC.

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